Workers smile through gloom with cash windfall

UP to 500 workers have come smiling through the doom and gloom of budget week with huge financial windfalls as a “thank you” from the departing owners of the food company they work for.

All the workers at Pallas Foods in Newcastle West are to get cash thank you payments from the owners from the e175 million sale money. Each worker will get e1,500 for every year of service and for some the windfall will come to more than e30,000.

Pallas Foods in Newcastle West is owned by Timmy Geary and his family, and has been taken over by international food company Sysco Corporation.